Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Capable of being appropriated: Describes something, especially property, funds, or rights, that can be legally taken, set aside, or assigned for a particular use or owner.

Usage

• The term is used to describe assets or resources that are legally available to be taken possession of or allocated.
• It often appears in legal, financial, or administrative contexts.

Examples

Advanced Usage

• "Appropriable rent": An economic term referring to profit that can be captured or claimed by a party, often due to a monopoly or unique advantage.
  • The company's control over the patent created a significant stream of appropriable rent.

Variants and Related Words

• Appropriate (verb): To take possession of something for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission, or to set aside for a particular purpose.
• Appropriation (noun): The act of appropriating; the allocation of funds for a specific use.
• Inappropriable (adj.): The opposite, meaning not capable of being appropriated.

Synonyms

• Assignable: Capable of being transferred or allocated.
• Seizable: Capable of being taken possession of, especially by legal authority.
• Alienable (in law): Capable of being transferred to the ownership of another.

Antonyms

• Inalienable: Not subject to being taken away or transferred.
• Non-transferable: Not capable of being passed to another.

Adjective

1. that can be appropriated
   • appropriable funds